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Reference code
AU AU-MTC 106/1
Title
Reminiscences of an Australian parson
Date(s)
- 1910? (Creation)
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52 photocopied manuscript pages
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Name of creator
(1837-1912)
Biographical history
William Newton was born in Lancashire, studied at Cambridge and was ordained in Llandaff in 1861. He emigrated to Australia in 1871 and worked in parishes in Macleay River and Gulgong. After returning to England to work in Stanstead, Essex (1889-1890) he returned to Sydney as the headmaster of St Philip's Grammar School. He then served as curate of St Matthew's Botany (1896-1897) and minister of St James Pitt Town and St John Wilberforce with Sackville Reach (1897-1911).
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Open access